[WikiEN-l] Arbcom has completely lost its mind

Sat Feb 11 16:51:04 UTC 2006

Perhaps it should be noted that some admins force
certain editors to become "trolls" through provoking,
but it seems that no-one cares about the provoking
part -- only about the other end that violates the
policy of this-and-that. Many people, for instance,
feel offended when they are being warned in public, on
their talkpage. Most people, I believe, don't like to
be given ultimatums. In my opinion, we should try to
protect the integrity of the Wikipedian and have them
warned in private. I also disagree with the block
images that are added on talk- and user pages.

Further more, as I said above, I don't think that it's
good to have admins that provoke editors only so that
they can block them. And yes, there are such admins.
Unfortunatelly, it seems that the people with
authority (stewards and above) are most impressed by
the work of the admins, instead of those who just want
to edit articles.

Anittas

--- Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:

> charles matthews wrote:
> > The wikilawyers and trolls always want a codified
> set of rules on an
> > issue, so they can subvert the spirit while
> adhering to the letter. 
> > Fortunately, percentagewise,they don't account for
> a high proportion of
> > Wikipedians. Most people can get by with some
> rough idea of what is
> > expected, and the realisation that the system is
> relatively forgiving in
> > the case of good-faith mistakes.  Do we codify
> 'relatively forgiving'? 
> > Hell no.
> 
> I think this is extremely well put.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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